The saying goes... first we shape our tools, then they shape us

We are now manufacturing intelligence (why it's artificial) and it shall be interesting to see how it shapes us individually and as a whole.

While marching on May Day, the woman next to me made the comment that Ai will force every human and humanity to reflect on what it means to be human, all of us at the same time over a short time period. What makes a human valuable beyond their work? Why do we go to other people when their expertise is at everyone's fingertip? What value are we giving, trading, or sharing in the time we have in this world?

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trilogic 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Interesting Tony, you seen to have been working for the AI since long time. We others are catching up but eventually all of us will be working for it, as directly or indirectly we are already doing. The "robot" was figurative cause we are no different from a machine, but that is too much for humans to comprehend.

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verdverm 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I work for myself and the world, not for Ai. It's a tool without identity, but a damn good one that multiplies my capabilities.

I anticipate the first bifurcation to be wheat from chaff. Ai is going to do better at a job than say half the people, those who don't care about the effort they put in or the quality of their output. These people will have to come to terms with their mediocrity or blandness.

I'm still unsure what the good ideas are for when we reach a world without labor scarcity.

	▲	trilogic 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		<I'm still unsure what the good ideas are for when we reach a world without labor scarcity. It should be real creativity the final goal to this life optimization. For now many of us need to fight for survival, for food, shelter... so is a bit difficult to be purely creative. But is also true that given all the benefits (taking off the survival instinct) makes creativity obsolete. >I work for myself and the world, not for Ai. Yourself really? Start by defining "I", "work" or "yourself"... then we may proceed to the next LOL